(Typography) Printing & Piety: An Essay on Life and Works in the England of 1931, & Particularly Typography
London: Sheed & Ward, 1931.
First edition. One of 500 unnumbered copies signed by Eric Gill & Rene Hague on colophon. American typographer and book designer Jackson Burke's copy with his bookplate on paste down. 121 pp. Bound in publisher's crimson cloth, spine lettered in gilt. Near Fine in uncommon original dust jacket, creased horizontally, else Near Fine, bright and unclipped. Two prospectuses laid in. The English typographer and sculptor's influential essay on typography, hand printed on special watermarked paper. Item #140941773
Price: $1,500.00